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LSD microdosing is trending in tech circles
It may seem like a doomed attempt to mix business and pleasure. But a growing number of young professionals in Silicon Valley insist that taking small doses of psychedelic drugs simply makes them perform better at work — becoming more creative and focused. The practice, known as “microdosing”, involves taking minute quantities of drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or mescaline (found in the Peyote cactus) every few days.
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What We’ve Learned from Giving Dolphins LSD
Communication between humans and animals may be possible after all. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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The Psychedelic Miracle
Inside the underground movement to unleash the healing power of MDMA, ayahuasca and other hallucinogens. By Mac McClelland.
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A puke bucket and an ancient drug: is ayahuasca the future of PTSD treatment?
I visited Peru to find out more about an intriguing ayahuasca study – and to have my own experience with the psychedelic brew. By sland.
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Here’s how underground chemist Tim Scully planned to save the world with LSD
He managed to get acid behind the Iron Curtain. By Angela Chen.
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LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how
What we do — and mostly don’t — know about tiny doses of hallucinogens. By Stephie Grob Plante.
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The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia
Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture. By Hua Hsu. (May 17, 2016)
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Wow
Beck
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First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI
Amanda Feilding used to take lysergic acid diethylamide every day to boost creativity and productivity at work before LSD, known as acid, was made illegal in 1968. During her downtime, Feilding, who now runs the Beckley Foundation for psychedelic research, would get together with her friends to play the ancient Chinese game of Go, and came to notice something curious about her winning streaks.
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Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75
Mr. Sand earned a reputation in the 1960s for making some of the purest LSD on the market, including Orange Sunshine, before the law finally caught up with him. By Williiam Grimes.
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Life In A Northern Town
Dream Academy
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A Forest
The Cure
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Live In Japan (1984)
The Cure
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Tripping on Peyote in Navajo Nation
A journalist exploring psychedelics’ therapeutic potential participates in a ceremony of the Native American Church. By John Horgan. (July 5, 2017)
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Time To Pretend
MGMT
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Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping
Our dual cancer diagnoses plunged me and my wife into depression. Could LSD, the drug of my youth, help now?
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Why The FDA’s ‘Breakthrough’ Nomination For MDMA Matters - Psychedelic Times
MDMA photo via Flickr user Kripos_NCIS You may have heard that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently designated MDMA a ‘breakthrough therapy’—but what the heck does that mean? Currently, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is studying MDMA for its usefulness in treating extreme post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in conjunction with psychotherapy. They are …
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Michel Foucault in Death Valley
A Boom interview with Simeon Wade. By Heather Dundas.
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How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen
Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear. By Forrest Muelrath.
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A Fateful Hunt for a Buried Stash of the Greatest LSD Ever Made
In the 1970s, a quiet pocket of rural Wales became the psychedelic hub of the world. We went back in search of the chemists, dealers and thousands of hidden blotters. By Joe Zadeh.
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